Strong solutions to stochastic wave equations with values in Riemannian manifolds (Q2466516)

The authors study the stochastic wave equation with values in Riemannian manifolds (opposite to Euclidean spaces). On a \(d\)-dimensional compact manifold \(M\), they consider the following one-dimensional stochastic wave equation \[ \mathbf{D}_t \partial_t u = \mathbf{D}_x \partial_x u + Y_u\, (\partial_t u, \partial_x u) \dot{W}, \] where \(\mathbf{D}\) is the connection on the pull-back bundle \(u^{-1} \text{TM}\) induced by the Riemannian connection on \(M\). They prove, after giving a rigorous formulation of the stochastic problem, existence and uniqueness of solutions of the above equation which are strong both in the PDE sense as well as in the probabilistic sense.